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Container Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

3301. Harley MS 4805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4805
Title:
Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [1a]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: '[…] conservant les affaires de Turgaie'. ff. 1*r-103v: Collection of letters and documents, chiefly containing correspondence and treaties between the kings of France and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, written in French, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3302. Harley MS 4806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4806
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Cicero, De inventione. ff. 57r-116r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large decorated initial in gold and colours formed by 2 fish with foliate decoration including acanthus leaves, naturalistic flowers and birds extending into the margins on 2 sides (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3303. Harley MS 4809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4809
Title:
Cartulary of Waltham Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–2*v: Table of contents by Peter le Neve. ff. 1r–192v: Sections ‘vii’–‘xxi’ of a cartulary. Private deeds arranged and numbered in sections by places; occasional additions throughout; section xix for Stansted (Essex) wants 30 entries at the beginning, before f. 138. f. 193r–v: Pen trial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1353-1360s
Extent:

1 volume

3304. Harley MS 4812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4812
Title:
Law cases from the reign of Elizabeth I, 1586-1591
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Law cases from the 29th year until the 33rd year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, written in Law French. The manuscript contains two additions: f. 1*recto: Parchment strip with the initials 'R. H.' inscribed; written in the 16th or 17th century. f. 2*recto: Parchmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1591
Extent:
1 volume

3305. Harley MS 4826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4826
Title:
John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

3306. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

3307. Harley MS 4828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4828
Title:
Treatise on the conduct of soldiers in war
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32r: 'This boke Intictualled to the Practysed Soldiers for Remembraunce and to the unexpert for Instruckc[ion] Touching the noble [? art of ] the wars set on […] hand [...] B […]'. Beginning: 'When the prince of the lande is moved to the Warres and hath chosen his lyfftenaunt ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3308. Harley MS 4830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4830
Title:
Laws of the city of Avignon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Laws of the city of Avignon, beginning with the rubric 'Aiso es la carta del covenes de la civitat de Avigno[n]', followed by the 'Convention de Beaucaire', a charter dated May 1251 ending the civil liberties of the city, as agreed between the municipal authorities of Avi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Occitan, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3309. Harley MS 4831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4831
Title:
Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola). The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3310. Harley MS 4834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4834
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). [f. 147 is a ruled unwritten leaf]. Decoration: 1 three-sided white vine border in colours and gold with putti, butterflies, birds and the coat of arms of the Porzio family of Messina (f. 1r). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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